Vista to XP :P

posted in The XNA Struggle

Published April 27, 2008

Yeah so I got a laptop this week. I figured If im going to be serious this time with my devlopment I need a home base. I decied it didnt really have to be a power house either so I went with the 400 dollar presario c75n1r. Nice specs to 1gig ram, dual core pentium at 1.7ghz also 120gb hard drive.

The thing ofcourse thats really driving me up the wall is the switch back to xp. Since all laptops at the stores were carrying vista I had to switch my box back to a xp/linux bootup. What nightmare, hp wont even acknowledge any existance of xp drivers for my laptop even though they exist. Keep spiting out that it wasn't made for xp. What a bunch of crap stupid people.

Well I think im set on the windows side. all the drivers are inplace and all my applications are set after 12 hours :P of work. Anyways now on to my linux side and then I can get back to programing.

Vista lol what a joke :/

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Moomin

I like vista

April 27, 2008 05:21 AM

ukdm

I would like Vista if it wasn't so slow and infuriating with it's "are you sure you want to do <anything>" dialog boxes

April 27, 2008 10:32 AM

benryves

What exactly is your problem with Vista? It sounds more like your problem is installing XP on a laptop that doesn't have XP drivers available (I've had similar fun installing XP on a laptop "Designed for Windows 98"), but that clearly isn't the fault of Vista. [smile]

Quote:Original post by ukdm
I would like Vista if it wasn't so slow and infuriating with it's "are you sure you want to do <anything>" dialog boxes

I only have to see a UAC prompt about twice a week, and that can be disabled if you wish to go back to the dark days of having to run everything as an administrator. As for speed, it's orders of magnitude faster (as am I, with the numerous UI tweaks) on my £450 PC I bought last year than XP ever was on my £900 PC I bought five years ago.

The Your experiences with Windows Vista thread seems to indicate that GDNet users like it in general.

April 27, 2008 01:14 PM

Reddox

Yeah, Vista is an extreme joke. My new computer came with Vista, and I upgraded to XP Pro after a few weeks. Microsoft admitted Vista was basically a joke, and honest computer builders provide an upgrade path to XP (like Dell).

April 27, 2008 06:36 PM

Xloner12

Quote:Original post by benryves
What exactly is your problem with Vista? It sounds more like your problem is installing XP on a laptop that doesn't have XP drivers available (I've had similar fun installing XP on a laptop "Designed for Windows 98"), but that clearly isn't the fault of Vista. [smile]

Quote:Original post by ukdm
I would like Vista if it wasn't so slow and infuriating with it's "are you sure you want to do <anything>" dialog boxes
I only have to see a UAC prompt about twice a week, and that can be disabled if you wish to go back to the dark days of having to run everything as an administrator. As for speed, it's orders of magnitude faster (as am I, with the numerous UI tweaks) on my £450 PC I bought last year than XP ever was on my £900 PC I bought five years ago.

The Your experiences with Windows Vista thread seems to indicate that GDNet users like it in general.

No no your right its mainly that I want to jump back to xp. I mean I do have vista on my media machine and runs great. Its just how much resources it takes for what you get out of it I think is kind of lop side. Most of my issues with it are more directional then functional. I just dont think they should have worked on the graphical interface as much as they did to the downfall of other parts.

April 27, 2008 08:24 PM

Metorical

I bought a Mac and then put XP on that with bootcamp :-) Haven't used OS-X yet but the XP part was really easy.

I could have put Vista on instead but I thought along the same lines as you... XP will hog less resources which is essential on a laptop (think battery life).

April 30, 2008 06:38 AM

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